Sorry, you're right, you need them sorted first, I haven't actually used uniq in ages, I forgot about that, Fergal > > uniq -u WANT HAVE HAVE > > Does this work in modern versions of uniq? All the versions I've > every used (including the one I have right here [just checked]) have > been specific about requiring a *sorted* file. So the standard thing > I do is: > > sort WANT HAVE HAVE | uniq -u > > Still not perl and not all that much fun... ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe